Silicon Image 3132 and Leopard
ZDNet posts that you should beware of using Silcion Image’s 3132 chipset that’s used for so many noname eSATA ExpressCards (and the one I have) with Leopard. I have had little success using this with Tiger as it seems incompatible with my enclosure (might as well be the other way around, though)
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Any one else ?? 10.5 is not working with the silicon image 3132… so have to use my usb cable…
paid for a useless card !
My silicon image 3132 worked fine with Tiger. When I upgraded to Leopard, it started working improperly. It doesn’t allow anything to be written to my external hard drive at all, and it’s kind of flaky reading files as well. I have contacted silicon image numerous times and every time they tell me that they’re working on it. I’ll believe it when I see an updated driver on their site.
I have a Sonnet eSATA expresscard (which contains Silicon IMage’s 3132 chipset) experiencing the same behavior. It will not write to my Seagate Freeagent Pro drive with the Oxford Semiconductor multi interface chipset when connected via eSATA. The drive works fine when connected via USB2.0. When I connect a “roll my own” drive, also a USB2/eSATA enclosure, via eSATA, it works fine. Not sure which chipset my Vantec enclosure is using, but whatever it is, it works fine. From doing some reading around the web, it appears that SI is pointing the finger at the Oxford Semi chipset despite originially admitting to a firmware bug on their end. Calls to Sonnett have yielded no results as they had been waiting for a fix from SI. This is all with Leopard btw, in Tiger everything had worked fine even though Sonnett says that they can also reproduce the problem with Tiger.